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Improving access to financial services: Mobile payment system Micro-insurance system Micro-lending platform Provision of agricultural information: Mobile information platform Farmer helpline Improving data visibility for supply chain efficiency: Smart logistics Traceability and tracking system Mobile management of supplier networks Mobile management of distribution networks Enhancing access to markets: Agricultural trading platform Agricultural tendering platform Agricultural [...]
“The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has agreed to launch the country’s first scientific journal, which they expect to attain international standards and become a reference point within central Africa.” via @SciDevNet I am a strong advocate for investment in research and development in developing countries. Professional journals are a part of [...]
Since July 9th, 2011, when South Sudan decided to secede from larger Sudan to become the newest country in the world, we’ve been waiting for it to be made official on Google Maps. That day is finally here. What I find exciting about this is that a concentrated effort is being made by the World [...]
Starting Dec. 30, the Satellite Sentinel Project — a joint experiment by the U.N.’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme, Harvard University, the Enough Project and Clooney’s posse of Hollywood funders — will hire private satellites to monitor troop movements starting with the oil-rich region of Abyei. The images will be analyzed and made public at www.satsentinel.org [...]
After reading “African academics ‘slow to use online journals’” over at SciDev, I couldn’t help but read deeper into the story. The importance of increasing academic research in Africa really cannot be overestimated. Research is crucial not only for the advancement of knowledge on the continent itself, but also for Africa’s economic and academic participation [...]
While catching up on some of my blog feeds the other day, I stumbled on a great post by Ethan Zuckerman about his recent trip to the iHub in Nairobi. Ethan did a wonderful job, in his often wordy manner, portraying the essence of the iHub from a bird’s eye view. I am very interested [...]
“For a long time, even when I was going to school, we were taught that the structure of the human brain was basically fixed by the time we got to our early 20s. But it’s become clear in the last few decades that in fact, even the adult human brain is quite malleable. And our [...]
Working as a Web professional, whether you are a designer, programmer, or social media specialist, one thing is certain. Only the strong evolving survive. I work in all three of those capacities both for my full-time job and as a freelancer and have seen advancements happening so fast that it is practically impossible to keep [...]
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